Accurately Judge Competitive Ability: Mental Attributes of Elite Runners #4/15

#4 — Accurately judge competitive ability.

Roger Bannister trained principally by running repetitive intervals of 400m. In April 1954, when he was able to run ten 400m intervals in 59 seconds each, with a 2-minute rest between, he considered he was ready to crack the 4:00 mile barrier.

Then 8 days before his greatest day, he ran a 3/4 mile time trial in high winds. The watch recorded a time of 2:59.9.

He commented, “I felt that 2:59.9 for the 3/4 mile in a solo training run meant 3:59.9 in a mile race was a reality.”

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